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Compositae

Compositae \Com*pos"i*t[ae]\, n. pl. [NL., from L. compositus made up of parts. See Composite.] (Bot.) A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.

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Take that handkerchief off of her head, and cut her hair close, and keep her temples cool, and put some drawing plasters to the soles of her feet, and give her some of my pilulae compositae, and follow them with some doses of sal polychrest.

Aldrovanda, 321 , on contractile tissues in plants, 364 , on movements of stamens of Compositae, 256 , on Utricularia, 395 Colchicine, action on Drosera, 204 Copper chloride, action on Drosera, 185 Crystallin, its digestion by Drosera, 120 Curare, action on Drosera, 204 Curtis, Dr.

These differences have been attributed by some authors to pressure, and the shape of the seeds in the ray-florets in some Compositae countenances this idea.

Columba livia, parent of domestic pigeons Colymbetes Compositae, outer and inner florets of.